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John 7:41-42

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7:41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” 1  But still others said, “No, 2  for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 3  7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant 4  of David 5  and comes from Bethlehem, 6  the village where David lived?” 7 

John 7:52

Context
7:52 They replied, 8  “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? 9  Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet 10  comes from Galilee!”

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[7:41]  1 tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

[7:41]  2 tn An initial negative reply (“No”) is suggested by the causal or explanatory γάρ (gar) which begins the clause.

[7:41]  3 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “does he?”).

[7:42]  4 tn Grk “is from the seed” (an idiom for human descent).

[7:42]  5 sn An allusion to Ps 89:4.

[7:42]  6 sn An allusion to Mic 5:2.

[7:42]  7 tn Grk “the village where David was.”

[7:52]  8 tn Grk “They answered and said to him.”

[7:52]  9 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).

[7:52]  10 tc At least one early and important ms (Ì66*) places the article before “prophet” (ὁ προφήτης, Jo profhths), making this a reference to the “prophet like Moses” mentioned in Deut 18:15.



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